Students singing at a school in Varanasi, India operated by Dutch NGO Duniya (duniya.org)

Group photo of students at a school in Varanasi, India operated by Dutch NGO Duniya (duniya.org)

Students excercise at a school in Varanasi, India operated by the Dutch NGO Duniya (duniya.org)

Red shoes on a student at the Princep Ghat Railway Station, Kolkata, India.

A boy hold up a drawing he made at the Child In Need Institute (CINI, cinindia.org) drop-in shelter at Sealdah Railway Station, Kolkata, India

Aerial view of the Science City educational center at night from a gondola, Kolkata, India.

Boys at a school in Varanasi, India operated by Dutch NGO Duniya (duniya.org)

Educational activities at the Tree of Life for Animals rescue center in Pushkar, India (tolfa.org.uk)

A brother and sister bike home from school on a trail in the East Kolkata Wetlands, Kolkata, India.

Students pray before eating at a school in Varanasi, India operated by Dutch NGO Duniya (duniya.org)

Children play games and socialize at a free health clinic run by the French NGO Agir pour Benares, at the Burning Ghats in Varanasi, India.

A public school bus passes tourists taking camel rides at the Pushkar Camel Mela, Pushkar, India.

Paper recycling along the Hooghly River near Barabazar, Kolkata, India. The facility handles textbooks, newspapers, school papers, and office papers. They separate out high quality newspaper pages and inserts, which are sold to the thousands of food vendors in Kolkata to wrap street food in.

Children attend a school run by the NGO PATH Welfare Society, in Kumartoli, Kolkata, India

Children attend a school run by the ngo PATH Welfare Society, in Kumartoli, Kolkata, India

Children attend a school run by the NGO PATH Welfare Society, in Kumartoli, Kolkata, India

Children attend a school run by the ngo PATH Welfare Society, in Kumartoli, Kolkata, India

A classroom in the Kokri Agar slum near Antop Hill, Mumbaa, India. Children attend night classes here to practice what they've learned in school. The teacher is a volunteer whose day job is an insurance saleswoman.

Schoolchildren look at halloween-type masks for sale at a market in the Kokri Agar slum, Mumbai, India.

Children are driven to school in rickshaws in the Chandi Chowk area of Old Delhi, India